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You think he's a nice balding guy, but he's just declared war on the content
business.
What the entertainment
business
is struggling with, the world of brands is figuring out.
Or, as Nike's head of marketing says, "We're not in the
business
of keeping media companies alive.
We're in the
business
of connecting with consumers."
And I think this is beginning to happen in the entertainment
business.
And then, there's
business
model issues about how to try to effectively market it and get it to people.
I used to be in the film business, kind of, and actually, Nicholas Negroponte saw this when I was, like, 12, and anyway, so then they said, "No, you have to make two and they have to fight."
Actually, you have to put a circle around that, and call it
business.
I came out of the movie business, as I said, and I said, let's make these animatronic robots.
So it's a really strange
business
model compared to coming from a toy company.
So, the very first question you've got to figure out is: What is the single most important thing that a VC is looking for when you come to them pitching your new
business
idea?
I don't want somebody who says, "I've got a great idea in a
business
I know nothing about.
Those skills include everything from technical skills if it's a technology business, to marketing and sales and management and so on.
For example, reference companies I've heard of, or basic items in your
business.
Let's look at the most successful technology executive in the business, and see how a presentation goes.
Then you give me a quick
business
overview.
I want to know what the
business
model is on a per-unit basis, or for the actual product you're selling.
And I want to know how that
business
model, on a product basis, will translate into a company model: How many widgets will you sell?
That's a very traditional lifestyle, and they get up early in the morning, go to bed early, because they have worked hard their whole life, mostly with their hands, very often had a very small family business, a small farm, a shop, or like Mr. B, he was a farmhand.
What we did is, we created a new
business
model called "sharing is caring."
The sharing is caring
business
model says two families share one unit, three families share one unit, and they split the cost, so they can afford paying for it.
We have in our culture in our city, an ethos where our
business
leaders don't just run companies, they run philanthropic institutions and nonprofits, and those folks took notice.
And so we've got white folks and black folks, Hispanic folks and Native American folks, we've got members of Congress, members of the city council,
business
leaders, religious leaders, Trump people and Hillary people, all joined by one common belief, and that is that a kid should have an equal shot at a good life in our city, regardless of what part of town they happen to be born in.
Many leaders I met saw diversity as something to comply with out of political correctness, or, best case, the right thing to do, but not as a
business
priority.
They had, in 2011, 19 percent women in leadership, yet they decided to do better, and they did what you do in any other area of
business
where you want to improve.
I am a
business
advisor.
Much of the technology that threatens our freedom and our dignity in the near-term future is being developed by companies in the
business
of capturing and selling our data and our attention to advertisers and others: Facebook, Google, Amazon, Alibaba, Tencent.
Now, artificial intelligence has started bolstering their
business
as well.
But it's not the intent or the statements people in technology make that matter, it's the structures and
business
models they're building.
The video game industry in 2005 became a 29 billion dollar
business.
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